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42 games, Recompiled, Reuploaded... *sigh*

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Developments

A couple of months ago, I set about having to recompile all my OUYA games so they would work nicely on the new Razer Forge.
42 games, all retweaked with Quit buttons on their menus, less OUYA reference amongst the games, and a massive amount of Controller Code refixing.

PlayJam got involved in my updating, and asked me to fix 'em for their GameStick, too. Going through all 42 wasn't exactly a doddle, but it was at least mostly smooth sailing.
.. Until PlayJam's newer "Flare" device came in to play.
By this point I was about 10 games in, but their review staff warned of crashes galore, with most games not even reaching the main menu.
After a few weeks of tracking down issues, I finally found that the bug was due to one of my menu sounds.
"099.wav" (the blip of all the menus in all my games since around about 2009!) is only 722bytes in length.. .. Because it's just a blip, and that's all it needs to be.
I spent a good number of weeks trying to find a minimum filesize, and it seems that "about 2048 bytes" is roughly as small as the PlayJam FlarePlay is willing to work with.
By now, I'd already gone through about 30-odd games, so the only option was to keep this stuff in mind, finish off the list, and then..
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Start the whole bloomin' list over!

I've so far uploaded 9 fixes and Beta Collexion, and am taking this opportunity to also re-upload the games into my archive.
The Archive now has a "Droid TV" filter, and any Droid TV compatible game includes an OUYA link, a PlayJam GameStick link, and also a downloadable .apk which should be compatible with any Android device that includes a gamepad... Hopefully.. But, of course, there's always Android Fragmentation to deal with!!

If you have a standard android tablet/phone, try plugging a gamepad into it, and you should hopefully find a playable game!
There are currently 10 games listed here, and over the next couple of weeks, that should expand to about 40 games.

*phew* Busy busy busy!!

If you do try out any of the DroidTV games, let me know if it does/doesn't work on your device, and of course, what your device is!

Daily Doodle : So Cold

If Platdude had a nose, it'd have frozen off by now!

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